Harare — DESPITE sterling efforts by post-independence Parliaments to wrench Zimbabwe's civil law into the modern era of gender equality, there are still a lot of old-fashioned laws on the books and some equally old-fashioned customs.
The latest Supreme Court ruling has uncovered yet another anomaly, which was by the look of things also being interpreted in an archaic way.
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